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REPORT.

Hon. EH. N. Morrill, Governor of Kansas:

In accordance with the provision contained in section 1 of the
act of the legislature approved March 24, 1884, for the protection
of domestic animals, we, the Live-Stock Sanitary Commission of the
state of Kansas, have the honor to submit herewith our biennial
report for the years of 1895 and 1896.

This board consisted, in 1895, of the following members: J. W.
Johnson, of Hamilton; John I. Brown, of Delphos; and J. W. Moore,
of Marion. ‘The board organized March 26, 1895, by electing J. W.
Johnson, chairman, and J. W. Moore, secretary.

It will be seen from this report that our state has been compara-
tively free from diseases of an infectious or contagious character
during the years 1895 and 1896. The whole number of cattle quar-
antined in 1895 was 2,611, distributed in the following counties:
Butler county, 2,100; Linn county, 106; Cowley county, 230; Miami
county, 123; Labette county, 20; Franklin county, 32.

The cattle in butler and Cowley counties were held temporarily
only. They had been brought into the state in violation of the
rules and regulations of the Live-Stock Sanitary Commission, with-

‘out a permit, and were held for 60 days under quarantine, and found

not to be infectious, and were released. The. Butler county cattle
were from old Mexico. The Cowley county cattle were from Okla-
homa.

Permits were given for shipment into the state of Kansas for graz-
ing and feeding purposes, in 1895, from safe districts where permits
were required by our rules and regulations: From Texas, 29,372;
from Arizona, 8,192; from New Mexico, 5,414; from Oklahoma,
18,216; from certain counties in Missouri, as follows: Jasper, New-
ton, McDonald, Lawrence, Barry, Stone, Christian, Taney, Douglas,
Ozark, Howell, Oregon, Carter, Ripley, Butler, Stoddard, New Mad-
rid, Dunklin, Pemiscot, Mississippi, and Scott, 2,287. Total, 58,481.

Deaths resulting in the state in 1895, from Texas or splenic fever,
were 8 in Miami county, and 12 in Franklin county.

The board organized April 1, 1896, by the election of J. W. John-
son, chairman, and J. B. Vincent, secretary. J. B. Vincent was ap-
pointed to fill vacancy caused by expiration of term of J. W. Moore.

Whole number of cattle quarantined for Texas or splenic fever

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in the state in the year of 1896 was 833, distributed in the following
counties: Pottawatomie county, 33; Cherokee county, 298; Mont-
gomery county, 53; Nemaha county, 99; Labette county, 255;
Marion county, 95. |

The cattle in Pottawatomie county, on investigation, were found
to be cattle that had been stolen from Cowley county and driven
into the Territory, where they picked up the infection, and then
driven back into the state and shipped from Tisdale, Cowley county,
to Kansas City stock-yards, and sold to Mr. Ryan, of Blaine, Potta-
watomie county. Mr. Ryan shipped them to his home in Potta-
- watomie county. When the fever broke out in the herd the board
was notified, and responded promptly, quarantining the pasture
the cattle were in and confining the disease to that one place. Nine
deaths resulted from the outbreak.

The cattle in Nemaha county were shipped by a Mr. Caldwell, of
Dexter, from Hoosier,.Cowley county, to Kansas City stock-yards,
and sold to T. E. Rolfe, of Wetmore, Kas., who shipped them home.
The board was notified of an outbreak of Texas or splenic fever.
On investigation, it was found that a stray Texas cow has been
turned into the pasture in Cowley county where the cattle had
been pastured before shipping to Kansas City stock-yards, and it is
believed had infected the pasture. The board promptly quar-
antined the pasture of Mr. Caldwell, also that of Mr. Rolfe. One
death resulted from the outbreak for Mr. Rolfe, and five for Mr.
Caldwell.

As to the cattle in Marion county, the board has been unable so
far to find out from where the infection came. The cattle were
shipped to Kansas City stock-yards from Wabaunsee county, where
they had been kept since December, 1895, and there sold to Mr.
Gilbert, of Lost Springs, Marion county. Eleven deaths resulted
from this outbreak.

The cattle in Cherokee, Labette and Montgomery counties that
were quarantined were cattle that were driven across the line out
of Indian Territory in violation of the rules and regulations of the
Live-Stock Sanitary Commission. They were all promptly quar-
antined in the pastures where found in the state. Twenty deaths
resulted from the outbreak in Cherokee county, and two in Labette.
The totai number of deaths in the state for the year of 1896, from
Texas or splenic fever, was 43.

Permits were given for shipment into the state of Kansas for
grazing and feeding purposes, in 1896: From safe district of Texas,
88,192; from safe district of Oklahoma, 14,375; from Arizona, 62,-
538; from New Mexico, 16,852; from the counties in Missouri, as

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follows: Jasper, Newton, McDonald, Lawrence, Barry, Stone, Chris-
tian, Taney, Douglas, Ozark, Howell, Carter, Ripley, Butler, Stod-
dard, New Madrid, Dunklin, Pemisco t, Mississippi, and Scott, 1,888.
Total, 183,845.

The work of the Live-Stock Sanitary Commission in the state of
Kansas is a matter of ever-increasing interest and developments,
and during the past two years it has engaged public attention to a
greater degree than at any previous time. The commission men,
the packers, the shippers and the farmers are realizing the im-
portance of this work, and are uniting to carry the work to its
highest degree of usefulness and efficiency. It should be a matter
of pride to all Kansans to know that Kansas is the pioneer, the
leader almost, in the movement to prevent the spread of contagious
and infectious diseases among domestic animals.

In a report issued by the bureau of animal industry, at Wash-
ington, D. C., dated February 6, 1893, a great deal of light has been
thrown upon the much-talked-of cattle disease, Texas fever. Pre-
vious to the appearance of the above-mentioned report, nothing
authentic was known of the pathology or etiology of this disease,
but, thanks to the investigation made by the bureau of animal indus-
try, the phenomena of the mysterious workings of this disease are
plainly and lucidly explained, robbing it of its mysterious aspect
and placing it upon a truly scientific basis; and, since the medium of
infection is well understood, Texas fever loses a great deal of its
terror to the cattlemen. ‘To be sure, the tick theory is new yet, but
as soon as one commences to study the life-history of the tick and
makes one or two investigations of an outbreak of fever, he has not
long to remain in doubt as to the correctness of the theory.

The investigation mentioned above was commenced in the year
of 1888, and was continued until the spring of 1893, when the above-
mentioned report was issued. It has always been a great mystery
to investigators why the period of incubation in Texas fever was so
very uncertain; that is to say, why it was that after susceptible
northern cattle were exposed to the infection of Texas fever, in
some cases 60 or 80 or even 90 days would elapse before an outbreak
of fever, while in other cases less than half the time would develop
the disease.

There seem te be two forms of this disease: the acute, fatal
type, and a rather prolonged, usually nonfatal type. The acute dis-
ease usually appears in the hot summer months, and as a rule at
the same time in all animals of a herd which have been exposed
together to the same infection. Generally, for three or four days
previous to any outward symptoms, there will be an elevation of

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the bodily temperature from four to six degrees. Loss of appetite
always, and cessation of rumination usually, accompany the high
fever after the third or fourth day. In the acute stage, the number
of respirations may rise to between 60 and 100, and the pulse to be-
tween 90 and 110 per minute. |

Among the most marked symptoms of Texas fever are the dis-
charge of bloody urine and the extreme thinness of the blood, as
easily noticed by picking the skin with a penknife, and, without
going into the pathology of this disease, it will perhaps be sufficient
to mention that the want of coloring matter in the blood and the
presence of bloody urine are both due to the rapid destruction of
the red blood-corpuscles. By the destruction of the red blood-
corpuscles the coloring-matter of the blood is liberated and passed
off with the urine from the kidneys. Thus we see the Texas-fever
germ confines itself entirely to the destruction of the red blood-cor-
puscles, and in an acute attack right well do they perform their
mission, reducing the number, in some instances, nearly four-fifths
from a normal condition. |

The mild form is caused by the animal picking up only a few ticks
—not enough to give the animal the fever in an acute form.

MEDIUMS OF INFECTION.

At the investigation made by the bureau of animal industry,
experiments were made in every possible way of conveying the in-
fection of Texas or splenic fever, and in every instance the germ
was conveyed only by direct inoculation or through the medium of
the tick. :

HISTORY OF THE TICK, AS GIVEN BY THE BUREAU OF ANIMAL
INDUSTRY.

The life-history of the splenic-fever tick (Boophilus bovis) is as
follows: After a young tick has attached itself to cattle, it takes
about two weeks fer the tick to grow and become sexually mature.
At this time it is found that each female is provided with a male,
and fertilization takes place, after which the female enlarges very
slowly uutil from the nineteenth to the twenty-second day, when
she swells up very rapidly, a day or two producing a great change in
size. When the proper time arrives, she loosens her hold upon the
skin and drops to the ground, where the laying of eggs begins in a
few days. A full-grown female tick will lay from 1,500 to 2,500

eggs at a single laying, and in from 20 to 45 days these eggs will be

hatched out ready to begin another life-history.
Now, the infection of Texas fever is conveyed to the susceptible

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northern cattle by the small, recently-hatched tick, and the germ is
taken from the southern-coast cattle into the parent tick and is
conveyed by them into the little tick through the medium of the egg.

Thus we find that the splenic-fever germ is found in the blood
of almost all of the southern-coast cattle, and what is strange about
it is that it does not seem to inconvenience them in the least, the
supposition being that they become immured in early life, as it has
beeu long known that extremely young animals seldom, if ever,
die with splenic fever. As Soon as some means has been discovered
by which the Texas-fever tick can be destroyed without injury to
the cattle, just so soon can cattle from infected territory be brought
north and mixed with natives with impunity and without the least
possible chance of any danger, providing they are not allowed to
iecome in contact with any ticks in transportation.

For the protection of the live stock of the state of Kansas, the
Commission adopted the following rules and regulations, which
are made a part of this report:

GOVERNOR’S PROCLAMATION QUARANTINING CERTAIN LOCALI-
TIES ON ACCOUNT OF TEXAS FEVER.

State of Kansas, Hxecutive Department,
: Topeka, March 17, 1896.

Whereas, as per “Regulations concerning cattle transportation,’ by the
United States department of agriculture, under date January 27, 1896, that a
contagious and infectious disease, known as “splenic or Southern fever,” ex-
ists among cattle in the area of the United States hereinafter set forth:

Now, therefore, I, E. N. Morrill, governor of the state of Kansas, for the
purpose of preventing the introduction and spread of said disease in this
state, do, by virtue of the authority in me vested, hereby proclaim that any
cattle imported from the said area or district shall be brought in subject to
the regulations hereinafter following.

The area or district referred to is defined as follows:

All that country lying south, or below a line beginning at the northwest
corner of the state of California; thence east, south and southeasterly along
the boundary-line of said state of California to the, southeastern corner of
said state; thence southerly along the western boundary-line of Arizona to the
southwest corner of Arizona; thence along the southern boundary-lines of
Arizona and New Mexico to the Rio Grande river; thence southeasterly along
the Rio Grande river to the southwestern corner of the county of Foley, state of
Texas; continuing along the Rio Grande river in a northeasterly direction to
the southwestern corner of the county of Pecos; thence following the western
boundary of Pecos county to the southeast corner of Reeves county; thence
following the boundary-line between the counties of Pecos and Reeves to the
Pecos river; thence southeasterly following the said Pecos river to the north-
west corner of Crockett county; thence easterly along the northern bounda-
ries of Crockett and Schleicher counties to the southeastern corner of Irion
county; thence northerly along the eastern boundary of Irion county to the

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northeast corner of said county; thence northerly to the southern boundary
of Coke county: thence westerly to the southwestern corner of Coke county:
thence northerly along the western boundary of Coke county to the southern
boundary of Mitchel] county; thence easterly to the southeastern corner of
Mitchell county; thence northerly along the western boundary of Nolan
county to the northwest corner of Nolan county; thence easterly along the
northern boundary of said county to the southwestern corner of Jones county;
thence northerly along the western boundary of Jones county to the southern
boundary of Stonewall county; thence easterly along the northern boundaries
of Jones and Shakelford counties to the southwestern corner of Throckmor-
ton county; thence northerly along the western boundary of Throckmorton,
Baylor and Wilbarger counties to the Red river: continuing along the Red
river in a southeasterly direction to the southeast corner of the county of
Greer, territory of Oklahoma; thence northerly, following the course of the
north fork of the Red river to its intersection with the southern boundary-
line of Roger Mills county; thence easterly along the, southern boundary of
Roger Mills and Washita counties to the southeastern corner of Washita
county; thence northerly along the eastern boundary of Washita county to
the northeast corner of said county; continuing in a northerly direction
along the eastern boundary of the county of G to the southwestern corner of
the county of Blaine ; thence easterly along the southern boundary of Blaine
county to the southeast corner of said county; thence north on the eastern
boundary of said county to the northwest corner of Canadian county; thence
east on the northern boundary of said county to the northeast corner of said
county; thence north along the eastern boundary of Kingfisher county to the

thence east along the southern boundary of the state of Kansas to the south-
eastern corner of the state of Kansas; thence southerly along the western
boundary-line of Missouri to the southwestern corner of Missouri; thence
easterly along the southern boundary-line of Missouri to the Mississippi
river; thence southerly along the Mississippi river to the southern boundary-
line of Tennessee; thence easterly along said boundary-line to the south-
western corner of Polk county, Tennessee; thence northerly along the eastern
boundary-line of Tennessee to the southern boundary-line of Virginia; thence
west along said boundary-line to the boundary-line of Kentucky at the western
point of Virginia; thence northerly along the said boundary-line to the north-
ernmost point of Virginia; thence southerly along said boundary-line to the
northeast corner of Virginia, where it joins the southeastern corner of Mary-
dJand at the Atlantic ocean.

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REGULATIONS CONCERNING THE IMPORTATION OF CATTLE INTO THIS
STATE FROM LOCALITIES SCHEDULED BY THE GOVERNOR’S
PROCLAMATION WITH REFERENCE TO SPLENIC

; OR TEXAS FEVER.

I. That no cattle from above-described infectious area are to be brought
into the state of Kansas between February 1 and the first day of December of
each year, and, in addition thereto, no cattle from the county of Kingfisher,
Oklahoma Territcry, shall be admitted into the state of Kansas from Feb-
ruary first to December first of each year. Nor shall any cattle from the town-
ships of Lowell and Garden in Cherokee county, Kansas, be admitted into any
other part of the state of Kansas between the first day of February and the
first day of December of each year, except when shipped by railroad for im-'
mediate slaughter, and when so shipped shall be governed by the following
rules:

II. Each car carrying cattle, and carrying the same in the course of trans-
portation from said infectious area into or through the state of Kansas must
have a placard firmly attached stating in bold letters, “This car contains
southern cattle’; and the stock-yard slip or stub and way-bill of the said car
shall be marked plainly on the face thereof the words ‘‘Southern cattle.’ All
railroad trains containing such car or cars transporting the said cattle will
be required to stop at one of the following points: Kiowa, Caldwell, Arkansas
City, Parsons, Coffeyville, and Herington, and submit the way-bills or mani-
fests of the said car for inspection to an agent duly authorized by this Com-
mission.

III. On unloading southern cattle at points of destination, or for feed,
water and rest, at any stock-yards in Kansas, certain chutes, alleys and pens
must be set apart for their exclusive use until after December 1 each year.

IV. Whenever any southern cattle that have been unloaded in Kansas shall
be reshipped to other points of destination, the cars in which said cattle are to
be reloaded must be placarded and the way-bills thereof marked ‘Southern
cattle,’ and the said way-bills submitted for inspection to the agent of this
Commission, in the same manner as heretofore provided for in original ship-
ments.

V. All cattle coming from the counties of Jasper, Newton, McDonald, Law-
rence, Barry, Stone, Christian, Taney, Douglas, Ozark, Howell, Oregon, Car-
ter, Ripley, Butler, Stoddard, New Madrid, Dunklin, Pemiscot, Mississippi,
and Scott, in the state of Missouri, are hereby prohibited from entering Kan-
sas without a special permit from the Live Stock Commission or its author-
ized agent, except those cattle shipped to quarantine or southern pens of an
established stock-yard for immediate slaughter; and no permit shall issue
for the admission of cattle into Kansas from the above-named counties
in Missouri until the owner or manager of said catile shall have complied
with the requirements mentioned in rule VI, and shall furnish in addition
thereto a certificate of inspection from the Missouri state inspector, certify-
ing that the cattle to be admitted are non-infectious and free from any dis-
ease. Such cerificate of inspection shall accompany the required affidavit
and shall be attached thereto.

VI. All cattle coming from Arizona and New Mexico and from that portion
of Texas and Oklahoma lying north and west of the U. S. government quar-

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antine line are hereby prohibited from entering Kansas without a special per-
mit from this Commission or its authorized agent. The owner or manager of
catile to enter Kansas from the area hereinbefore described in this paragraph
and the counties in Missouri mentioned in paragraph V must show by his own
and the affidavits of two reliable disinterested persons whose reliability is
certified to by a county clerk or a notary public who has personal knowledge
of the character of said persons, that the cattle to enter Kansas are free from
cattle-ticks (Boophilus bovis), have been exclusively kept ever since Febru-
ary 1, 1896, north and west of the quarantine line designated in paragraph I,

and that the cattle have not come in contact with southern cattle or trail
made by same since February 1, 1896. Also give number, kinds, and brands or

marks of cattle. This rule shall not apply to cattle shipped to quarantine
pens for immediate slaughter.

VII. Cattle that have been exposed in any manner to Texas-fever infection
shall be yarded only in southern cattle-pens in stock-yards in Kansas.

VIII. Cattle from the Dominion of Canada will be required to enter the
state of Kansas at Kansas City, where they will beheld in quarantine at the
risk and expense of the owner for 90 days, or until they shall receive a certifi-
eate of health from a veterinarian selected by this Commission.

YX. Agents of railroad or live-stock transportation companies are hereby
forbidden to receive from or bill any cattle out of any public stock-yards to
interior points in Kansas without first obtaining a permit from the authorized
agent of this Commission for such shipments.

X. It shall be the duty of the managers or persons in nate of public
stock-yards in Kansas to keep the said yards in proper sanitary condition for
the protection of the health of live stock intrusted to their care, and to
cleanse and disinfect all yards and pens, chutes and alleys, at such times as
may be deemed necessary by this Commission or its authorized agent.

XI. All railroad, live-stock transportation and stock-yard companies and.
their employees are hereby forbidden to transport, drive or in any way handle
cattle in Kansas, except in compliance with the foregoing rules, under the
pains and penalties of the following statute:

(Extract of Chapter 2, Session Laws of 1884.)

Sec. 21. Except as otherwise provided in this act, any person who shall violate,
disregard, or evade, or attempt to violate, disregard, or evade any of the .
rules, regulations, orders or directions of the Live-Stock Sanitary Commission,
establishing and governing quarantine, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and upon conviction thereof, ebay be fined in any sum not less than $100 nor more
than $5,000.

XII. Cars that have carried infectious cattle shall be thoroughly disin-
fected before being loaded with non-infectious cattle.’ Such disinfection shall
be by removing all litter and manure, washing the cars, the feeding and water-
ing troughs with water until clean; saturating the walls and floors of the
cars with a solution made by dissolving four ounces of chloride of lime to
each gallon of water. Or, disinfect the cars with a jet of steam one a pres-
sure of not less than 50 pounds to the square inch.

XIII. All stock-yard companies doing business in the state of Kansas are
hereby ordered not to load non-infectious cattle into any cars that have car-

ried infectious cattle before they have been cleaned and disinfected accord-
ing to the above orders.

This order will be enforced under the provisions of section 8, chapter 2,
Laws of Special Session of 1884, which is as follows:

“Tt shall be the duty of the railway corporations doing business in this

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state to cleanse and disinfect the cars used by them in transporting stock in
this state, at such times and places as the Commission designate, whenever
in the opinion of the Commission any such order may be necessary to prevent
the spread of infectious or contagious disease. Any such corporation violat-
ing any of the provisions of this section shall be liable to a penalty of $500
for each. offense, to be recovered in a civil action, to be prosecuted under the
direction of the atterney-general in the name of the state. of Kansas.’’

XIV. Cattle from the Republic of Mexico may be admitted into Kansas by
rail for immediate slaughter, but cars containing said Mexican cattle must
have a placard firmly attached, stating in bold letters, “This car contains
southern cattle,’ and the stock-yard slip or stub on way-bill of the said éar
shall be marked plainly on the face thereof the words “Southern eattle.” But
cattle from said Republic of Mexico shall not be admitted into Kansas for any
other purpose than immediate slaughter except by special permit from the
Live-Stock Sanitary Commission of Kansas, and no permit shall be issued
except for caitle free from splenetic or Texas fever or contact therewith dur-
ing the three months preceding the issuance of said permit, and which have
been grazed in a locality free from infection of such fever.

XV. The Live-Stock Sanitary Commission is hereby directed to enforce
these regulations, and to arrest all parties who may be guilty of violation
thereof. .

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name and caused to
be affixed the great seal of the state. Done at the city of Topeka, this 18th
day of March, A. D. 1896. EK. N. MORRILL.

May 6, 1896.
The board met in Kansas City, Kas., and passed the following sup-
plement to quarantine rules and regulations for 1896.
The following rule was unanimously adopted:

Whereas, A malignant, contagious and infectious disease of swine, known
as hog cholera and swine plague, is very prevalent throughout the state,
causing a great loss of property and making the raising of swine a very pre-
carious business, and as the bureau of animal industry, at Washington, has
declared all public stock-yards permanently infected with the germs of the
above-mentioned disease:

Therefore we, the Live-Stock Sanitary Commission of Kansas, do hereby
declare a permanent quarantine on all swine entering the state of Kansas
that have been unloaded or housed in any public stock-yards; and agenis of
railroads or live-stock transportation companies, or any other person, are
hereby forbidden to receive from or bill any swine out of any public stock-
yards to interior points in Kansas.

The Live-Stock Sanitary Commission of Kansas also declare a permanent
quarantine against ali sheep entering the state of Kansas that have been un-
loaded or housed in any public stock-yards; and agents of railroads or live-
stock transportation companies, or any other person, are hereby forbidden to
receive from or bill out any sheep from public stock-yards to interior points
in Kansas, unless the following rules and regulations have been complied
with:

Any sheep that have been unloaded or housed in public stock-yards have
been exposed to scab infection. Before being shipped out they must have a

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certificate from the government agent that they have been dipped once. ;
Any sheep that are infected with scab must have the same certificate that
they have been dipped twice, and at least six days have intervened between the
first and last dipping.

All railroad, live-stock-transportation and stock-yard companies and their
employees are hereby forbidden to transport, drive or in any way handle
hogs or sheep except in compliance with the foregoing rules, under the pains
and penalties of section 21, chapter 2, Session Laws of 1884.

The Commissicn recommend that section 1, chapier 201, of the
Session Laws of 1891, be so amended that cattle may be admitted
into the state on and after the 15th day of November.

The large number of cattle being shipped through Kansas,
amounting to 11,675 cars, containing 337,948 head, of southern cat-
tle, passing through the stock-yards at Kansas City for immediate
slaughter, and shipped to other points for slaughter, makes the
guarding of this interest of great importance to the state. We
hereto attach and make a part of this report the report of Albert
Dean, inspector at Kansas City stock-yards.
| J. W. JOHNSON,

J. B. VINCENT,
JOHN I. BROWN,
Commissioners.

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REPORT OF THE INSPECTOR.

Kansas City, Kas., December 15, 1896.
To the Live-Stock Sanitary Commission :

Gentlemen: During the cattle-quarantine season of 1896, 11,673
cars, containing 337,948 cattle, originating below, south of quaran-
tine line, were yarded in the southern division of the Kansas City
stock-yards; 257,857 cattle were driven out of the above-named
yards for immediate slaughter at Kansas City; and 3,008 cars, con-
taining 8U,091 cattle, were shipped to other points for immediate
Slaughter, each car placarded and way-bills marked in compliance
with rule IV, Kansas regulations.

The 8,150 cars that had carried the southern cattle above de-
scribed were cleaned and disinfected at the railroad yards in the
vicinity of Kansas City, and 3,523 cars from which southern cattle
had been delivered at these yards by the M. K. & T. Rly. Co. were
cleaned and disinfected at Parsons, Kas.; in addition, 921 cars that
had contained cholera hogs and scabby sheep were cleaned and

disinfected at Kansas City, and 102 cars, for the same reason, were

cleaned and disinfected at Parsons, Kas.

Twelve hundred and forty-two cars that had unloaded southern
catle at Elgin and Davidson, Kas., by the A. T. & S. F. Rly. Co., were
returned to Arkansas City, and cleaned and disinfected. The Mis-
souri Pacific Rly. Co. unloaded 538 cars at Silver Dale, Kas., for
grazing in the Indian Territory, 87 cars at Caney, Kas., for the
Same purpose; total, 625 cars. Of this number, 529 cars were
cleaned and disinfected at Coffeyville, Kas., leaving 96 cars un-
accounted for, alleged to have been returned to M. K. & T. Rly. Co.
at points south of quarantine line.

Under rule VII, Kansas regulations, six car-loads of Texas-fever
infected cattle from Jasper county and two cars from McDonald
county, Missouri, five cars from Cherokee county, four cars from
Labette county, one car from Chautauqua county, Kansas, and one
car from Kingfisher county, Oklahoma, were removed from the
“native” to the “southern” division of the Kansas City stock-yards.

Permits were issued, under rule IX, for the shipment of 148,591
stockers and feeding cattle from the native division of Kansas City
stock-yards to interior points in Kansas. Of this number, three
shipments developed Texas fever, two of which, however—the Cald-
well cattle, from Hoosier to Nemaha county, and the Johnson cattle,
from Tisdale to Pottawatomie county, were infected previous to

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entering these yards. The origin of the outbreak at Lost Springs
still remains unaccounted for. |

In compliance with rule VI, permits have been issued for cattle
to enter the state of Kansas, for grazing and feeding purposes, as
follows: |

Fron: state el Texas vias Agcy ecuss B EUL seis asec e aiah ouesale macnn anere ane 64,493
rom state 01 Texas VideC. Bedarra ly seat. oe pee ee epee ne eee 1,440
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Frem state of Texas via Missouri Pacifie Rly... 2... ..nce ee ck. cee pray oS 800
Prom state or Tegas wie trad oo bic ca kete ena ears fee Pe Stato aS ae 3,319
From, territory, of Arizona via Ae Tee joo WH Ulyini steht eb ncet eae ee 61,335
From territory of New Mexico via A. T. & S. F. Rly.................... 15,650
From territory of New Mexico viaC. R.I.& P. Rly........ lie: se scone eee 2,000 ~
From territory of Oklahoma via A.'T..& S. BRI i.) ne oe ae 5,159
Brom territory of Oklahoma via /C. RB. 1. Sees Rivne. 2). ese hee eee 1,876
From territory of Oklahoma via Missouri Pacific Rly...... “Seelok, ce eee 275
From territery of Oklahoma: wiatrail -.). ack. acho eee aches Saen oe eee 1,385
MO yf este kee Git: de ca ae tei a pees od a LT Rehater’ de, Eporiedeee net Cle or ete aioe en stn aaa 158,757

From the proscribed counties in Missouri (rule V), 1,525 cattle were
permitted to enter Kansas for grazing purposes, from which it is
alleged that one slight outbreak of fever resulted; 8,606 cattle from
the states of Chihuahua and Sonora, republic of Mexico, were per-
mitted (rule LX) to be shipped to points in the state of Kansas for
grazing purposes.

The number of outbreaks of Texas fever nl fatal cases resulting
therefrom in 1896, in Cherokee and Labette counties, Kansas, show
an increase over the previous season of a fraction over three to one,
and unless the coming winter should be one of unusual severity,
heroic measures on the part of your board will be required to eradi-
cate the infection from these counties. |

Investigations made at different times during the. past season
in regard to Texas fever in Kingfisher county, Oklahoma, failed to
develop any signs of permanent infection.

Respectfully submitted.
ALBERT DEAN, Inspector. |